[Tijeras_Slim]

Nevada and the Governor were more than happy to suck as much money out of this project as they possibly could, wait until it was built and then say "Forget it."

I've done work there, once on site, that waste won't go anywhere.

[chimera]

Nevada and the Governor were more than happy to suck as much money out of this project as they possibly could, wait until it was built and then say "Forget it."

I've done work there, once on site, that waste won't go anywhere.

I've been in those tunnels, too. Short of a magnitude 15 earthquake (that would probably fracture the Earth anyway) that diverts the entire volumetric flow of the Colorado River through the fragmented remains of the storage casks, that stuff is staying put.

I helped with some of the early studies of fission product transport through those rock strata. We're talking about migration rates measured in microns per geologic epoch. My guess is that the material will get out someday - when the Sun swells to nova size and melts the crust of the earth away.

[CJinVA]

How many Federal tax dollars have been spent on Yucca Mountain in the past 15 years?

Couple billion?